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State Representative, 56th District

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Nov 3, 2026

What this office does: A state representative votes on Tennessee laws and the state budget in the Tennessee House of Representatives.

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Bob FreemanOfficial portrait — Tennessee General Assembly

Bob Freeman

DemocraticIncumbent

President, Freeman Webb (real estate) · Nashville

The gist

  • Supports risk protection orders, safe storage and background checks.
  • Supports ending the grocery tax and a $15 minimum wage.
  • Opposes using public school funding for private schools.
  • Sponsored bill letting terminally ill adults request life-ending medication.In office

In office = from the candidate's own official statements or legislation as an officeholder, not their campaign.

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  1. Supports risk protection orders, safe storage and background checks.

    Issues – Vote Bob Freeman

    Campaign website · Friends of Bob Freeman · votebobfreeman.com

    “common-sense measures like emergency risk protection orders, safe storage requirements, and expanded background checks”
  2. Supports ending the grocery tax and a $15 minimum wage.

    VOTE411 voter guide: Tennessee House of Representatives District 56

    Candidate questionnaire · League of Women Voters of Tennessee (VOTE411) · onyourballot.vote411.org

    “eliminating the grocery tax and raising the minimum wage to at least $15 an hour”
  3. Opposes using public school funding for private schools.

    Issues – Vote Bob Freeman

    Campaign website · Friends of Bob Freeman · votebobfreeman.com

    “Funding for our public schools should not be used to subsidize private education.”
  4. Sponsored bill letting terminally ill adults request life-ending medication.

    Representative Bob Freeman: bills sponsored in the 114th General Assembly

    Government record · Tennessee General Assembly · wapp.capitol.tn.gov

    “an adult suffering from a terminal disease may request medication for the purpose of ending the adult's life”

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